Thirty-five years after her death, Natalie Wood's legacy and memory live on with her daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner. In a new interview with The New York Times, Gregson Wagner recalls intimate moments with her mom, who died in 1981 at the age of 43.

"She would walk into our house and everything would be better," she said. "If she walked into a room and it was sepia, it suddenly became bright colors."

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Wood is best known for her roles in movies such as Miracle on 34th Street, Splendor in the Grass, Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story. She died in the midst of filming of her final movie, Brainstorm, during a boat outing with her husband, Robert Wagner, and co-star Christopher Walken.

Gregson Wagner, 45, has generally kept quiet about Wood's death, likely due to the investigations and suspected conspiracies attached to it. But she opened up to the Times about learning of the tragedy and its aftermath: "I woke up and I was like: 'Is this real? Is this really what's happening?'" she said. "Her bed and her sheets smelled like her. I slept there for a lot of nights. Especially with one of her pillows, it just smelled like her in the days after."

One of Gregson Wagner's favorite memories of her mother stems from this particular scent: Wood's signature fragrance, Jungle Gardenia (also a favorite of Elizabeth Taylor's)."I knew when she was home because I would smell her perfume. She would waft through the house," she said. Now, Gregson Wagner is making a fragrance based on it, fittingly named "Natalie," and publishing an accompanying coffee table book, to keep her mother's memory alive for her fans.

"My mom wore it all her life and I remember her putting it on in her bathroom," said Gregson Wagner. "I'd sit there and watch her put her makeup on and then she'd go into her bathroom where all of her Jungle Gardenias were and she'd dab it. ... Whenever anyone complimented my mom on it, she would gift it to them."

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